Abstract:
The modern relationship between ‘the tourist’ and ‘the touristic experience’ was established by De who
defines it as an ‘eagerness to gain an authentic experience for the leisure class’ (1976: 2). The tou in
its original sense, depends on the degree of authenticity produced by the sight offered by a relevant c
In this sense, either positive or negative, there is a necessary co-relationship between the experience o
the degree of authenticity maintained in the sight. As a result, the authenticity of the sight is heavily by
those who manage global touristic sites. However, in the present digital culture, tourists’ orien specialty
of the experience (sight) seemed to have moved further away from the holistic experience (ob of the
sight to ‘ritualistically’ scrutinizing the digital devices (subjective interior) (Pfaller 2002). There
phenomenons at operation today; the modern leisure class has been transformed to digitalized leisure
experience was made into a computerized interface in which the viewer is made into ‘interpassivity
Zizek 1997); a form of ‘self-fulfilling’ of their own subjective reception in reality (Oenen 2006), in
